The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-07-16

excess of $4,000 for the treasury, but
| the Secretary could not have made
SO large showing had his salary not
been so small. We are gaining ex-
perience, in fact. acquired enough
this year to last century. A minis
terial friend of the Alliance sugges-
ted that we replenish our treasury by
an arrangement with concert COM
pany, we did so, the company furn-
ished the experience, we the funds,
we soon dissolved the partnership.
then we had the experience and they
the funds. But although this ven
ture was not much of success for
the Alliance, we are none the less
profoundly grateful to those who
tried so faithfully to make it so, and
we here and now return the thanks
of the Alliance to the young ladies
and scholars of the Sabbath school of
the Church of the Ascension, of Lib
erty street Independent M. P. church
of Fayette street, South Baltimore
Station. Wesley Chapel, Exeter,
Monument and Eutaw street M. E.
Churches, of Hollins Chapel, and the
Goodwin Temperance Society, and
ESPECIALLY to Joshua lowering, Esq,
and the official board of the Y. M. G.
A. And now, with one single point
and recommendation, the Secretary
Ateayes this finance matter to the con-
vention. 1t is said that an insane
asylum in the North, one of the tests
OF patients returning sanity, is to
put ladle or dipper in his hand and
lead him to a tank into which water
is flowing from a tap, and tell him to
bale out the tank; if before baljng,
he turns off the tap, his case is hope
full, and rice VersG, Apply this to
BaltimOre-the tank is the city's
cauldron of crime and poverty 4; the
saloon is the supply tap that keeps
~ luil anu CNSl ONclhOWl HS ;
aChite the tap Is on-the tank aCUL
overflow, Cause and effect, are as
eternal, as their infinite author. The
State expends more than 100000
each year to bale out this tank, but
lets the tap flow on that's my point.
My recommendation is that the mer-
chants, bankers and business men of
Baltimore give this Alliance a fair
and reasonable financial support for
the next few years, and by the help
of God and the people, we will turn
the $4,000 into the channels of
legitimate trade, which is now worse
than wasted, oyer the saloon bars OF
Baltimore City; we will empty your
prisons and turn them into shoe and
plough factories we will turn off this
tap, bale out this tank and dry up the
source of nine-tenths of the charity
calls that now haunts your offices
and counting-rooms. In the spirit
and name of all that is noble, good
and pure in citizenship, we invoke
your acceptance of this proposition,
1 Aud now in conclusion, let me con.
graduate our Alliance on three great
sources of inspiration which beckOns
US on, cheer and inspire US as we en-.
ter the fifteenth year of our exist.
ence.
1st.-On the prevailing sentiment
and enthusiasm in City and State fol
Constitutional Prohibition in Mary
land, waged and battled for on 6
purely non-partisan and non. sectar
ian basis.
2nd-On the unprecedented unity o
all the temperance organizations in
the State with the Alliance, its OBJ
jects, policy and methods, and
) 3d.--On the growing hope anC
promise that when the supreme mo-
) ment comes for US to decide this grea
amendment question, our votes will
not be stolen by the ballot thieves o
Baltimore; that by the help of Goo
and the Reform League, that little
slip of paper
That falls as lightly in the box, as snowflake
fail upon the sod,
But executes the will of man. as lightnings d.
the will of God
: shall be restored to its pristine pow
i err, and the sacred ballot resume AGAR
all the functions designed for it BY
the fathers of this great republic. AL
of which is respectfully submitted by
G. S. MosHER,
|! Secretary.
Business Barometer.
!. New YORK, July S.-R. G. Dun